AND TONIGHT, ONE NEW MEXICAN- WHO WAS AT GROUND ZERO WHEN THE SECOND TOWER CAME CRASHING DOWN-- IS SHARING HIS STORY. WHEN HE SAW WHAT WAS HAPPENING- HE GRABBED HIS CAMERA. AND TONIGHT- HE'S SHARING HIS PHOTOS WITH YOU AND ACTION 7 NEWS ANCHOR TANYA MENDIS. THEY SAY A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS. NATS FROM "THIS IS THE SECOND TOWER" :15 this is a piece of one of the airplanes. That's two windows from the fuselage FOR ERIC O'CONNELL.. THESE PICTURES.. ARE WORTH THE WORDS HE CAN'T FIND.. AND THE MEMORIES HE CAN'T SHAKE. ERIC O'CONNELL/SEPT 11TH SURVIVOR 3:49 what it felt like, what it tasted like, that smell, there was a smell that I'll never forget ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001.. O'CONNELL WAS LIVING JUST BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE TWIN TOWERS. O'CONNELL 1:14 all of a sudden the tv was interrupted with a burning tower and a guy's voice O'CONNELL'S INSTINCT KICKED IN-- HE GRABBED HIS CAMERA AND RAN TOWARD THE BURNING SKYSCRAPER. O'CONNELL 2:09 the whole building and everything I ran past that just went THAT WAS THE SOUND OF THE SECOND PLANE HITTING.. JUST FEET FROM WHERE HE WAS STANDING. O'CONNELL COULDN'T BRING HIMSELF TO LOOK UP. SO HE LOOK DOWN, AND STARTED SNAPPING THESE PHOTOS. O'CONNELL 3:09 I had nothing really to prepare me for what I was seeing BUTT TO 3:15 what I was stepping over were literally body parts CHAOS WAS ALL AROUND HIM. AND THEN THE SOUND HE'LL NEVER FORGET O'CONNELL 4:34 then all of a sudden I just heard "brrrrr" THE TOWER WAS FALLING. O'CONNELL DOVE INTO A DOORWAY.. EVERYTHING AROUND HIM, CRASHED DOWN.. O'CONNELL 5:51 it just blew up and I got smashed against the wall. BUT SOMEHOW HE SURVIVED.. AND SO DID HIS PICTURES.. NOW IN A GALLERY IN ALBUQUERQUE.. O'CONNELL MAKES SURE EVERYONE ELSE HAS A GLIMPSE INTO THE IMAGES, FOREVER BURNED IN HIS MEMORY. TM KOAT A7N O'CONNELL'S PHOTOS ARE ON DISPLAY AT THE ALBUQUERQUE PHOTOGRAPHER'S GALLERY IN OLD TOWN, THRU THE END OF THE MONTH. HE ALSO TURNED HIS STORY AND PICTURES, INTO A BOOK.